Customizing Automated Installations With Manifests and Profiles

Defining Criteria for Manifests and Profiles

The following commands enable you to define criteria for manifests and profiles:

• installadm create-manifest

• installadm create-profile

• installadm set-criteria

Some criteria keywords accept both individual values or a range of values. To specify no limit to a range, use unbounded as the end limit. For example, a memory definition of 4096-unbounded means 4 MB or greater.

To specify criteria, you use one of two options with the commands:

• –c criteria

  With this option, you specify the criteria definition in the command line. For example:

  $ installadm create-manifest -c mac="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff" other-options
  $ installadm create-profile -c mem="2048-unbounded" -c zonename="zone1 zone2" \
     other-options

• –C criteria-file

  With this option, all criteria definitions are in an XML file. In the command, you simply refer to the file. For example:

  $ installadm set-criteria -C /var/tmp/mycriteria.xml other-options

  Use any XML editor to create a file. To specify a value or a series of value for a criterion, use the <value> tag. For a range of values, use the <range> tag.

  The following is an example of a criteria file's contents:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <ai_criteria_manifest>
     <ai_criteria name="mem">
        <range>2048
        unbounded</range>
     </ai_criteria>
     <ai_criteria name="platform">
        <value>SUNW,SPARC Enterprise</value>
     </ai_criteria>
     <ai_criteria name="cpu">
        <value>sparc</value>
     </ai_criteria>
     <ai_criteria name="hostname">
        <value>host1 host3 host5</value>
     </ai_criteria>
  </ai_criteria_manifest>
  

The following table lists the keywords for defining criteria in an XML file.

-c mac=0:14:4F:20:53:94[-0:14:4F:20:53:A0]

<ai_criteria name="mac">
    <value>0:14:4F:20:53:97</value>
</ai_criteria>

<ai_criteria name="mac">
   <range>
       0:14:4F:20:53:94
       0:14:4F:20:53:A0
   </range>
</ai_criteria>

-c ipv4="192.0.2.5[-192.0.2.10]"

<ai_criteria name="ipv4">
    <value>192.0.2.5</value>
</ai_criteria>

<ai_criteria name="ipv4">
    <range>
        192.0.2.5
        192.0.2.10
    </range>
</ai_criteria>

-c platform="SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise"

<ai_criteria name="platform">
    <value>SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise</value>
</ai_criteria>

-c arch="i86pc"

<ai_criteria name="arch">
    <value>i86pc</value>
</ai_criteria>

-c cpu="sparc"

<ai_criteria name="cpu">
    <value>sparc</value>
</ai_criteria>

-c network="10.0.0.0[-11.0.0.0]"

<ai_criteria name="network">
    <value>10.0.0.0</value>
</ai_criteria>

<ai_criteria name="network">
   <range>
       10.0.0.0
       11.0.0.0
   </range>
</ai_criteria>

-c mem="4096[-unbounded]"

<ai_criteria name="mem">
     <value>4096</value>
</ai_criteria>

<ai_criteria name="mem">
     <range>
        2048
        unbounded
     </range>
</ai_criteria>

-c zonename="zoneA[ zoneB zoneC]"

<ai_criteria name="zonename">
    <value>zoneA[ zoneB zoneC]</value>
</ai_criteria>

-c hostname="host1 [host2 host6 ...]"

<ai_criteria name="hostname">
   <value>host1 [host host6 …]</value>
</ai_criteria>